VW Golf for Sale

Its time to off load, what has become my beloved, golf. It passed its NCT with only the brake lights needing repair so time to sell. I've put up this page so potential buyers can have a goo at it. I tried linking to this page from a free add I put up on the Buy and Sell but the cheeky gits removed my link and also didn't publish the advert in the hard copy of the paper as punishment. Looks like I'll have to invest in some real paper inches to get some more exposure. What's needed is a daft for cars.

Geocities Remote Link Test

Geocities block remote linking to images but one work around is to rename the file extension of the image you want to link to as txt.

So here goes:

Another travel toy

I bought this little baby (Canon Powershot A60) this morning for £99 on amanzon.co.uk. A steal in my eyes. It seems from various web reviews its a cracker for the price and that's taking in the fact its only 2 mega pixels. At £99 I won't be worrying about losing it when traveling or taking it out on the raz.

At this rate the pack will be full with electronics, with a phone and ipod in there already. I have to call a halt at this. Watch this space for some sample pics when I get it.

Phone to blog test

Just testing the email to blog functionality from my phone.If this works it will make blogging very easy, esp for Sal who is an sms freak.

Dentist

I've a large gap between my two front teeth which the dentist insisted he narrow for me when I was at Uni and because it was free I agreed. All was fine until last year I went for a cheap check up in the dental hospital in Dublin. The second year student was great very but she decided I need the gap redone and again I agreed only this time it has only lasted a year as opposed to 5-6 years since the initial version. Version 2 has crumbled already so this got me thinking I should get the auld teeth a check up before venturing off around the globe.

It's not really a round the world trip, more around Austral-asia with a stop off in LA.

Illustrated route

Booked!

We finally got around to booking the trip on Monday and the faffing around costs us about €200. Ticket price now €1664 instead of €1555. Ah well, its just great to have it booked. It feels a whole lot more real. I still can't believe its going to happen. The itinerary is as follows:

18th August Dublin - LA
22nd August LA - Auckland - Queenstown
2nd October Auckland - Nadi (Fiji)
16th October Nadi- Brisbane
TBA Cairns - Darwin
TBA Darwin - Bali
TBA Bali - Singapore - Bangkok
TBA Singapore - London - Dublin

Roll on August 18th

Investment

Last weekend I took the short hop over the Irish sea to Holyhead to pick up a little investment. With the holiday fund getting eaten up by inflation I decided to invest the money in a car that I heard was going cheap. The car, a black 3 door 1.4ltr 52K on clock Volkswagen Golf with alloys, was owned buy a girl who works in London who just recently picked up a company car and wanted to get rid of the Irish reg'ed golf asap. So I duly obliged at the right price and hope to sell it on for a small profit. If you are interested please get in touch.

Ultimate Travel Toy

I’ve just got hold of the ultimate travel toy for the trip one of these little babys:
 

Sals friends were over in New York for mid term and one of them bought it. Saved me roughly €100 on buying it here. I also bought a thing called an iTrip, which connects to it and turns it into a mini fm radio station (illegal in Ireland BTW). Very handy for use in the car and playing songs through a stereo at home, no wiring it up, just pop on the iTrip and tune in the radio. For any one interested, the best frequency to use in the Dublin region is 88.8, its very clear.

I going to be able to put all our music and all the music gathered over the years at the office on it and still have room to use it like a portable hard drive.

You got to hand it to the Apple designers they really take design seriously. Even the way it was packaged is very well thought out. I reakon its a design classic allready.

Around the world ticket

I've had lots of "advice" on this, where to get the cheapest etc. but as it turns out there seems only to be a few quid difference between the agents we went along to. We tried Trailfinders, Abbey Travel and the Australia Centre but everyone quoted the around the world ticket at €1555 ex tax.

We're going for a conventional seven stopper ticket with BA and Quantas however if you are doing anything slightly different and want to stray off this beaten path you might find a difference in price shopping around.

Off Soon!

Leaving July / August 2004. Watch this space.